Tag: Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking: Mad scientists could kill us all – that’s why we need space colonies
British physicist Stephen Hawking worries about humanity’s long-term future. (Credit: NASA) British physicist Stephen Hawking says we need to colonize other worlds because humanity will almost certainly face a disaster on Earth sometime in the next few millennia – perhaps a disaster of our own making. Among the risks he outlined in a report from the BBC…
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Stephen Hawking will help Virgin Galactic roll out second SpaceShipTwo on Feb. 19
British physicist Stephen Hawking addresses Virgin Galactic customers at Cambridge University. (Credit: Richard Branson via YouTube) More than a year after the first SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was destroyed in a fatal test flight, Virgin Galactic says the second SpaceShipTwo is ready for its California rollout on Feb. 19 – and famed British physicist Stephen Hawking is invited.…
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$100 million initiative to search for ET
Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, SETI pioneer Frank Drake, and Ann Druyan, widow of late astronomer Carl Sagan who helped craft interstellar messages carried aboard NASA’s Voyager probes. Credit: Getty Images Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner is pledging $100 million to fund the most sophisticated search for extraterrestrials ever…
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Stephen Hawking searches for aliens, and Elon Musk explains the SpaceX explosion
Alan Boyle We’ve been thrilled to have longtime space and science reporter Alan Boyle covering two big stories for GeekWire today: Stephen Hawking’s announcement of a $100 million initiative to find alien life, and Elon Musk’s news conference about a preliminary finding in the recent SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion. Before leaving the GeekWire offices this afternoon, Alan sat down and talked with us…
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Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner kick off new search for E.T.
Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner. (Photo courtesy of Hawking Center for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.) Russian high-tech billionaire Yuri Milner teamed up with the world’s most famous scientist, British physicist Stephen Hawking, to announce a new $100 million effort to detect signals from alien civilizations. The Breakthrough Listen initiative was unveiled Monday during a webcast from…